Word: auction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ford spent his final years living in England and Florida. He joined Sotheby's, the art auction house, as vice chairman, and he sat on the board of directors of a local bank. He continued to work for his old company and at the time of his death was head of the finance committee of the board of directors. To the end, he remained as secure as ever. After all, his name was on the building...
...particularly distressing, though, that those benefited with education through public largesse are so ready to disregard one of the basic conventions of our society--the repayment of debt. From farmers in the Midwest who auction off their land to pay back the banks to struggling young families who slowly make payments on their home mortgage, the less-privileged are more serious in discharging financial obligations...
International art collectors may be surprised at a Christie's catalog this fall. Instead of rare Renoirs, Turners and Manets, they will behold photos and descriptions of shopping malls, office buildings and hotels worth at least $5 million apiece. In November the London-based art auction house plans to team up for the first time with Cushman & Wakefield, a giant Manhattan realty firm, to put some $100 million worth of prime U.S. commercial real estate on Christie's Park Avenue auction block...
Three months after a Japanese insurance company paid $39.9 million for Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers, the overheated art market shows few signs of cooling off. At Christie's London auction house last week, another Van Gogh work, The Bridge at Trinquetaille, was sold in just two tense minutes of bidding for $20.2 million, the second highest price paid for a painting at an auction. The 29-in. by 36-in. Bridge, painted in 1888 when Van Gogh lived in Arles, was sold by the family of New York Banker Siegfried Kramarsky, who bought the painting in 1932. The buyer...
...election year, the anti-Harvard rhetoric directed at Harvard Real Estate (HRE), Inc., is minimal at best, despite the fact that the property sales continue at a steady pace. Since the 1985 election for instance, HRE has sold another seven small buildings, bringing the total number put on the auction block under the four-year old program...